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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Joining broken lines and removing empty lines Post 302925593 by derekludwig on Tuesday 18th of November 2014 04:41:36 AM
Old 11-18-2014
While it's not a one-liner, here's a perl solution:
Code:
use strict;
use warnings;

my $N = 9;

$, = '|';
$\ = "\n";

my $L = ''; # concatenated line
my @F = (); # fields

while (<>) {
    chomp;
    $L .= $_;
    @F = split '\|', $L;
    next if @F < $N;
    print @F;
    $L = '';
}

$, = ': ';
print '?incomplete', $L if $L ne '';

which produces:
Code:
2003-04-34024|04-10-2003|Claims|Claim|01-13-2003|Air Bag:Driver; |Athens|Georgia|null
2003-04-34025|04-10-2003|Product Liability|Lawsuit|12-06-1999|Rollover:severe head injury / comatose  Plaintiff |Austin|Texas|Yes
2003-04-34099|04-20-2013|Claims|Claim|01-13-2003|Air Bag:Driver; |Trenton|Jersey|null

 

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WCSCHR(3P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual							WCSCHR(3P)

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NAME

       wcschr - wide-character string scanning operation

SYNOPSIS

       #include <wchar.h>

       wchar_t *wcschr(const wchar_t *ws, wchar_t wc);

DESCRIPTION

       The wcschr() function shall locate the first occurrence of wc in the wide-character string pointed to by ws. The application  shall  ensure
       that  the  value  of  wc is a character representable as a type wchar_t and a wide-character code corresponding to a valid character in the
       current locale. The terminating null wide-character code is considered to be part of the wide-character string.

RETURN VALUE

       Upon completion, wcschr() shall return a pointer to the wide-character code, or a null pointer if the wide-character code is not found.

ERRORS

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       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

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APPLICATION USAGE

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RATIONALE

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FUTURE DIRECTIONS

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SEE ALSO

       wcsrchr(), the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <wchar.h>

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